Sunday, November 20, 2016

Laura’s Review of Amore: Part 2 (Amore, #2) By Bella Jewel

Synopsis

Run.
He told me to run. So I ran.
It turns out just because you run from something, doesn’t mean it can’t find
you.
He’s coming for me.
He wants what I hold closest.
He wants to lie, manipulate and use me.
He wants me to betray him.
Rafael.
Leader of the Italian Mafia.
Love of my life.
Father of my child.
He’s going to make me do the unthinkable.
There is no way out.
I’m trapped and about to make the biggest mistake of my life.
I’m running full throttle towards an oncoming train, and there isn’t a single
thing I can do to stop it.
I’m going to become what I was most afraid of.
A monster.

What I Loved

Amore: Part Two picks up several months after the first one ends;
Julietta has found herself and her family in a very precarious position. My heart was instantly sucked back into her
plight because of how suspenseful everything was from the very beginning. All Julietta wanted was to take care of her
baby and save her family but Ricardo makes this impossible for her. Plus, all
those emotions she felt for Rafael come roaring back the minute they see each
other again proving the feelings they felt for one another was very real.

There is so much drama going on
throughout the entire book and I loved it because I couldn’t wait till it all
boiled over. Rafael is still the head of the mafia and trying to figure out who
the traitor is in his crew and I loved watching Julietta struggling with that
knowledge. I couldn’t put this book down
till the very end because I just needed to know how it was all going to turn
out.

Not So Much

From reading the first book I was
expecting a lot more from this one. I felt
like a lot was sacrificed just to tell the plot rather than pay attention to
the details and stay consistent to the story.
I loved that the Joker’s Wrath MC was involved as well as Marcus, but
don’t they all live and work in Australia?
Why all of sudden was Marcus’ house in Chicago and the MC just happened
to be chilling on the other side of the world?
If you’re going to do things like, then you at least should add in more
plot to support this storyline rather than create bigger holes in the
story. For me, this just kept on
happening throughout the story, so many details were skipped over and
storylines were dropped just for the sake of ending the story.

I was so disappointed by the time I got to the end because the
entire is a little over 130 pages and deserved to be a lot longer giving the
overall plot a lot more depth and foundation.
I get that this the second part in a series but that doesn’t mean the
story doesn’t need its own foundation to build on and details to back it up and
this story lacked both of those immensely.

To Sum It All Up!

Overall, I was
happy all those emotions I experienced while reading the first book came
roaring back while reading this one. The
chemistry between Rafael and Julietta was evident the minute they laid eyes on
each other. No matter what plans Ricardo had for either of them the love they
shared for one another would overpower those plans in the end. When everything finally hit the fan, my jaw
was on the floor and I couldn’t wait to find out what would happen next. There is a ton of suspense in this one so get
ready for that.

I was disappointed with the writing in
this book overall. Like I said before I
felt like a lot of the details and depth to the plot was sacrificed just to tell
the story and finish it all up. There
were so many inconsistencies and plot holes I started to lose count and I
became frustrated very quickly on how so many storylines became meaningless and
glossed over. On top of that the ending
felt rushed to me and not followed through properly, I didn’t feel like there
was a good conclusion to everything. I
was very disappointed with this book compared to the first one, it needed at
least another 100 pages to make it the story is truly deserved to be.